Post * VMjBD — Curious Curator

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TIL that Henry Ford had initially lead the movement of shorter working weeks from the entrepreneurial side of things. He (counterintuitively at the time) showed that shorter working hours led to higher productivity.

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gMVmW TIL In the early comics, Aquaman went to college to learn about fish, where he gives himself the clever alias "Mr. waterman" only to out himself as Aquaman to the swim coach.

lor0G TIL The IRA managed to get their hands on the Crown Jewels of the Russian Empire but they did not know what to do with them so Harry Boland, an Irish Revolutionary, gave them to his mother who hid them behind a fireplace.

aRob TIL that the last descendant of the ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died as a spoken language by the 1600s. It has survived until today as the language of religious services of Egypt’s 10% Christian minority-the Copts. The alphabet uses Greek letters plus extra letters deriving from hieroglyphics

loJAa TIL that in his famous scene in ‘The Shining’, the crew made a fake door for Jack Nicholson to break through, but had to replace it with a real door as the fake one broke too quickly due to Jack previously being a Fire Marshall.

m1EAo TIL Sri Lankan businessman Merrill J. Fernando introduced Dilmah Tea in 1988 by phrasing it as "single-origin tea" going against the industry trend at the time. He also became a cultural icon in New Zealand in 1990 after starring in the “Do Try It!” campaign directed by a New Zealand agency.